In 2016, Kitty Norton left her job as an NBC assistant editor in Los Angeles, CA for her hometown of Portland, OR to walk, stumble, crawl with her dementia mother to death’s door. While doing so, she authored the dementia caregiver blog Stumped Town Dementia (under the pseudonym Lickety Glitz), writing tales of dementia life, not dementia death, which resonated deeply with readers around the world.

Kitty directed, filmed, and edited numerous short videos to commemorate dementia life with her mother, Gloria, for the blog. When Gloria died in 2021, Kitty was compelled to make "Wine, Women, and Dementia," her first feature film - to honor this journey with her mother, to spread awareness of the caregiver side of the equation in dementia, and to let other dementia households know they are not alone, that they are worthy of being seen and celebrated as they slog alongside their dementia person to the end of life.

Kitty set out to make a documentary that illustrates what she and so many other dementia family caregivers have discovered: Until there's a cure, there's community. "Wine, Women, and Dementia" has succeeded.